My sense is that Burgy's quote was accurate, and succomb did express
Johnson's beliefs. I understood him to mean that within a year from
now virtually nobody would hold to what he called theistic evolution,
which I take/took to mean any postition who holds that theism and
evolution could both be true. I recall him saying that there was a
discussion to be held (I purposefully avoid the term battle which he
may have used) this summer at the ASA meeting but after that people
like many of us would be swept away by the evidence supporting
his/their position. This was in the middle of hime saying that the
movement was growing, evidenced my the fact his invitations to speak
come from more and more respectable groups, and the coming CT
articles, accompanied by some comment that this was quite amazing
because CT had been afraid to do that for years (something quite close
to that).
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Joel W. Cannon
Dept. of Physics
Centenary College of Louisiana
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